Contract Mesh

• AKA Mesh Contractor
• Type of freelancer: Looking for someone that does 3D models and their texturing for games specializing in low polygon count and efficient texturing
• Deliverable is Wavefront OBJ file
• No rigging, this has to be done in our proprietary utility, but each part that can move preferably is it's own module (also referred to as a mesh group) with an origin on the axis of rotation
• 3 and 4 sided regular (convex) polygons... no concave! No N-gons!

  

• Emphasis on low polygon count (13812, as an example, is our limit for a cockpit/interior)
  • Easiest way is to make multiple instances of the same module (like a complicated chair that there are 3 copies of in the room)
• Include UV coordinates and color/light textures
  • Materials are not supported so any color or transparency data has to be contained in the texture (for this reason windows need to have polygon and UV data)
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    • The smaller the textures are, the better chance they have of being maintained in the main CPU's secondary cache
    • Use square textures whenever possible
    • Textures whose dimensions are 256x256 are the fastest
  • 2048x2048 maximum resolution for texture data but you can have different texture per "group" or "module" (as opposed to "sub-object" or "element")
• Scales are published here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wp6IW0c6uK_N73CRSNbpPKGp2DsH26G3C-SerBHvAAA

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